32.291, Books: Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent: Wiltshire

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:44:52
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent: Wiltshire

 


Title: Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/uniformity-and-variability-indian-english-accent?format=PB 


Author: Caroline R. Wiltshire

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108823272 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108823272 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 15.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108823272 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 17.51


Abstract:

The sounds of Indian English are distinct and recognizable to outsiders, while
insiders perceive variations in how English has developed in this large
diverse population. What characteristics mark the unity? Which are clues to a
speaker's origins or identity? This Element synthesizes research over the past
fifty years and adds to it, focusing on selected features of consonants,
vowels, and suprasegmentals (stress, intonation, rhythm) to understand the
characteristics of Indian English accents and sources of its uniformity and
variability. These accent features, perceptible by humans and discoverable by
computational approaches, may be used in expressing identity, both local and
pan-Indian.

1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic Situation in India; 3. Consonants; 4. Vowels;
5. Suprasegmentals; 6. Variation: Perception(s) and Attitudes; 7. Conclusions,
Appendix, References.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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